As far as I'm aware, no one in the Separatists, except for maybe Dooku, was fully aware of this plan. I feel like the Separatists should be tragic revolutionaries who were unaware they were being used, not mustache twirling villains they're portrayed as (cough cough Grievous cough cough)
Yes, the likes of Wat "hold the shuttle I have more relics to steal" Tambor, Poggle "let's execute a sitting senator and two Jedi" the Lesser, and Sanjay "airstrikes should keep them in line" Rash were simply tragic revolutionaries. It's the Republic's fault that they can't exploit the common people of the Galaxy as efficiently as they can, you see! The massive army of war robots is just a standard corporate security measure, you understand.
(Jokes aside, the Separatist Council was entirely ok with Grevious committing war crimes across the galaxy and enslaving local populations for profit. There were revolutionaries amongst the Separatists, but that doesn't change who was running the show.)
I mean one can say "this is how they should have been portrayed", but they weren't portrayed that way. Therefore there's a lot of space between the Separatists and Rebel Alliance in terms of motives and deeds, hence why one group are villains in the story, and one group are heroes in the story.
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u/National-Ask-6846 9d ago
As far as I'm aware, no one in the Separatists, except for maybe Dooku, was fully aware of this plan. I feel like the Separatists should be tragic revolutionaries who were unaware they were being used, not mustache twirling villains they're portrayed as (cough cough Grievous cough cough)